Servaas "Faas" Wilkes was a Dutch football forward, who earned a total of 38 caps for the Netherlands national team, in which he scored 35 goals. However, for a prolonged period of his career, June 1949 through till March 1955, he was banned from the national team since the KNVB did not allow professional players to participate. He also played for the Netherlands at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Wilkes in 1960
Valencia Club de Fútbol, commonly referred to as Valencia CF is a Spanish professional football club based in Valencia, Spain, that currently plays in La Liga, the top flight of the Spanish league system. Valencia was founded in 1919 and has played its home games at the 49,430-seater Mestalla since 1923.
Players of Valencia celebrating after having won the 1941 Copa del Rey final
Line-up in a friendly match in Alginet, August 1980. Up: Felman, Manzanedo, Orlando Giménez, Cerveró, Vilarrodà, Subirats, Carrete, and Arias. Down: Kempes, Morena, and Sol.
Fernando Gómez Colomer is the player with the most appearances for the club with 556
During Valencia's domestic and European dominance of the early 2000s, Argentine Roberto Ayala had been a key component in their defense